Do all planets also spin as their move around the Sun?

Yes, all planets spin. Some rather slowly, like Venus, where a day is as long as a year. If your idea of "not spinning" is that the planet always shows the same face to the sun, this is the situation of our moon. read more

Yes, all planets spin. Some rather slowly, like Venus, where a day is as long as a year. If your idea of "not spinning" is that the planet always shows the same face to the sun, this is the situation of our moon. read more

Planets form from material in this disk, through accretion of smaller particles. In our solar system, the giant gas planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) spin more rapidly on their axes than the inner planets do and possess most of the system's angular momentum. read more

We believe that all planets basically should be spinning pretty much in the same direction and angle as the sun. This is basically because both the sun and all the planets where one giant disc of gas at one point. read more